The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.